Behind Kim Jong Eun's Rhetoric

The WSJ's Deborah Kan speaks to Seoul reporter Evan Ramstad about reading between the lines of Kim Jong Eun's first speech as North Korean leader.

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... the ... Eric and John and has spoken publicly for the first time since taking the hell I'm Deborah con you watching Asia Today ... and giant now by Evan Rams that reporter based in Seoul ... so and and a lot of times and the speeches are urging a fuel that propaganda was there any clear message coming out of this one ... well I think is Macy's ... this features tennis and loafers was unusual for a new leader to speak I mean ... engine you know never spoke in public ... aam and his father Kim Il sung didn't speak in public and now his son King John in has spoken comments on ... the dance scene is he content ... speaks in times of that and he's being ... celebrations ... I like we've had this past week or so ... aam but in terms of rhetoric there wasn't too much debt was new and that's the striking thing ... because the ... concertina of its ... and the sort of hyper defensive units of its key and the idea that ... our military things always take precedence over economic things ... North Korea really came through ... I think if people are who had been ... on looking for change ... from Kim Jong Il the kids and I only heard the Teyssen were disappointed when he had to say ... the disasters rocket lines which have failed after less than two months after that aside ten minutes after taking up ... any mention of batter and hinted that he did the suggests anything about the nuclear program in North Korea ... none was no mention specifically ... rocket launcher missile test a winner of the one college ... on he did say that on earth Korea no longer has ... any reason to be afraid of country is that have ... nuclear weapons ... that he is not a slave to those countries anymore so that would be an allusion to the fact that they have achieved something ... in their development of their own nuclear weapons ... on of course I'd ... be haven't achieved much ... they have done to the nuclear tests on both the relatively strong ... ALM that weapons ... but nonetheless enough to scare of Oreos that they're making advances in technology ... and of course to raise waiting ... for a third test and some people think that that has become more likely because of the family on Friday ... OK and at the end of this beats the weekend said let's move forward to the final victory ... any idea what he was talking about that ... final victory is not one to Kim Il sung nominees ... it's sad aam when he mentioned on controlling the entire Korean Peninsula I mean can the Sun's revolution ... was to own and the entire Korean Peninsula ... I including South Korea and are ... on the leadership of an artist and under the ... at the time yoke of communism ... I well we now know of is is something rather more akin to what kind of ... extreme nationalism are looking to socialism et-cetera ... units ... on Sunday I went and that's kind of cold where the full eye on North Korea's ambition to to really control the entire peninsula ... anyway we can interpret what type of leader Kim will be going right I guess the question that everyone asking ... but it was there anything in his speech on that distinguished him differently from his father and grandfather ... but he seems like she's trying to make his unease Marmite is down five recently taken on another blow to his grandfather I mean ... it this is Courtney stature and the haircuts ... really ... makes him look like a young Kim Il sung ... of course hymns is speaking out ... may seem more like his grandfather than his father ... on the Continent speeches Italy has many clues and you just the delivery anime ... allowed for by ... friends and colleagues in South Korea have noted that he really wasn't a great speaker and he's looking for an online town ... and then use rather ... seem sort of boring and away ... and so he really wants to sort of on line into things you know he's going after ... my tend to be a bit more active in NGC public speaker yes ... I get a feeling will be waiting a long time that ... the chaos of the cake thanks very much saddened and said you're watching Asia Today and DeVore Khan ...